In today’s workplace professionals are increasingly confronted with the need to change. Advancing technologies, layoffs, mergers, new policies and procedures, shifting responsibilities and reorganizations offer challenging environments that require significant psychological shifts. To be successful at adapting, leaders must understand how to respond with the right behaviors and thoughts that move their teams through change. Leading Through Change offers a window into understanding why people react as they do to change.

The foundation for the workshop is the William Bridges Change Transition Model. This model involves understanding the three phases, identifying behaviors associated with each phase and knowing best strategies for working through the stages. It offers ways to internalize what is happening and allow differing needs to be supported by the team. The concepts enable leaders the ability to minimize dysfunctional behavior, understand reactions to change and decrease job disruption.

Learning Outcomes

As a result of the workshop, participants will:

Demonstrate an understanding of the psychological stages of change transition.

Deepen self-understanding of characteristic behaviors and emotions for each phase of change transition.

Actively cope, manage and move teams through change.

Build skills to strategically address team and individual reactions to change.

Workshop Components

To be successful in life and work, individuals must change. In fact, change is continually shaping who we are and how we perform on our jobs. In this workshop, participants are introduced to the universal patterns of change with the William Bridges Change Transition Model. Interactive activities engage the participants to reflect back and look forward. Video clips from popular movies and television reinforce the behaviors that occur during each stage of change.

Strategies for coping with difficult change are explored. Concrete examples compatible with the each stage enable participants to see new possibilities. Ultimately, participants learn that change is a necessary part of life that pushes people forward, rearranges relationships and develops inner strength.

Learning Outcomes

As a result of the workshop, participants will:

Explore the underlying and universal patterns that occur during change.

Understand and embrace the characteristic behaviors and emotions for each phase of change transition.

Build strategies for recognizing the external and internal signs of change.